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For current information on ODF, please see the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee.

ODF guarantees long-term viability. The OASIS ODF
TC, the OASIS ODF Adoption TC, and the ODF Alliance include members
from Adobe, BBC, Bristol City Council, Bull, City of Largo, Corel, EDS,
EMC, GNOME, Google, IBM, Intel, KDE, Novell,
Oracle, Red Hat, Software AG, and Sun Microsystems. As of June 2006 the
ODF Alliance has already more than 300 members.

Shipping products since September 2005

ODF files can already be created and used today.
The first products with ODF support started shipping in September 2005.

Free open source “reference” implementations

ODF is supported by multiple free open source office applications including OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Abiword/Gnumeric. OpenOffice.org, for example, is developed by large community including vendors like Sun Microsystem, Novell, Intel, and Red Hat. Due to the availability of the source code, support for
additional platforms or languages can be added by anyone.

ODF implementations available for all major
desktop platforms

Applications with ODF support are available for
Microsoft Windows, Linux, the Solaris OS, Apple Mac OS X, and FreeBSD.<

Open standard W3C XForms technology is used for
forms

The forms concept integrated into ODF is based on
the W3C standard XForms which is supported by multiple applications and
vendors.

Reuse of existing standards where possible

Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel and to
make interoperability as simple as possible, ODF reuses established
standards like HTML, SVG, XSL, SMIL, XLink, XForms, MathML, and Dublin
Core.

Very mature

The first work for the ODF file format started as
early as 1999 (see the ODF history).